Combination belt



Jan. 8 1924 G. A. PROCTOR COMBINATION BELT File d July 17. 1922 Patented Jan. 8, 1924.

UNETED STATES Lethal it PATENT OFFICE.

COMBINATION BELT.

Application filed July 17, 1922. Serial No. 575,741.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. Pnoo'ron, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Watertown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Belts, of which the followlng is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to belts worn by women outside the corset for the purpose of holding the brassiere or corset cover from working up, and also for supporting a sanitary napkin. To this end, I provide a belt, preferably composed of fabric, with two metallic plates carrying hooks for the support of the napkin, one of the plates being disposed in front of the wearers waist and to have a hook for connection with the brassiere, and also an eye for engagement with a stud of the corset clasp.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Fig. l is an elevation of a combination belt embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a detail view full size of the front plate. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the latter. Fig. 4 is a rear view of the same. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the rear plate.

The plates 1 and 2 are substantially rectangular and provided with vertical slots 3 close to their ends for the attachment thereto of the belt sections 4, 5 and 6. The belt section 5 has a buckle 7 at its other end with which the belt section 6 is engaged when fitting it about the waist.

Projecting forward and upward from the lower edge of the plate 1 is a hook 10, and from the plate 2 is a similar hook 10; each hook being provided for the engagement therewith of an eye 11 of an elastic tape 12 at whose lower end is a well known form of clasp 13 designed to be attached to the end of the napkin.

Projecting forward and downward from the top edge of the plate 1 is a hook 141- for engagement with an eye 15 of a doubled length of tape 16 which is to be stitched to the lower edge of a brassiere. As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the hook 14 descends below the free end of the hook 10, and is resiliently pressed forward against it for the purpose of preventing the eye 15 from becoming disengaged therefrom when the wearer stoops and the eye slides down thereon. To engage the eye 15 with its hook 1%, it is first pressed in between the hooks 14.- and 10 until below the tip of the hook 14., and then slipped upward into the control of the latter.

As shown in Fig. 4-, the plate 1 is formed with a key-hole slot 20 for the purpose of attachment to the corsets, this slot fitting one of the studs with which corsets are always provided for fastening them about the wearer.

To prevent the tip of the hook 10 of the plate 2 from cutting into the clothing, I prefer to curve it in toward the plate and to form the latter with a slot 21 designed to be normally entered by the tip; the slot being made long enough to permit the eye 11 to be pressed into it for engagement with the tip of the hook. After being thus engaged with the tip, the eye is readily slipped into proper control thereby.

For releasing the eyes 11 and 15 from the hooks 10, 14;, it is only necessary to move the eye 11 upward along the hook 10, pressing the latter outward enough for the eye to pass between the tip of the hook 141 and the hook 10, and thence away from the same. The eye 15 is removed in substantially the same way, with the exception that it must first be slid down both hooks below the tip of the hook 141:.

What I claim is:

1. A combination belt comprising flexible portions, and a plate uniting the same, said plate having an upwardly projecting hook rising from its lower edge, and a slot into which the tip of said hook projects.

2. A combination belt comprising flexible portions, two plates uniting said portions, each having an upwardly projecting hook rising from its lower edge, one of said plates having a hook projecting downward from its upper edge and terminally pressing against the other hook of the plate, and the other plate having a slot into which the tip of its hook projects.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of May, 1923.

GEORGE A. PROOTOR. 

